K-type star · orange

Xi CrB

Xi CrB is an orange in the constellation Corona Borealis 183 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,816 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 31.33× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 183 years ago.

183 lybrightness mag 4.86K0III

Also catalogued as HR 6103 · HD 147677 · HIP 80181

4,816 K

temperature

4.86

apparent magnitude

31.33× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K0III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

183 years

at light speed from Earth

0.83×

as hot as the Sun

31.33×

the Sun's light output

1.11

absolute magnitude

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Xi CrBK-type

Sky regionCorona Borealisthis direction

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Bright stars in Corona Borealis

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Corona Borealis

Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.